EMPTY SHELVES OR LOST KEYS? RECALL IS THE BOTTLENECK FOR PARAMETRIC FACTUALITY

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LLMs such as Gemini 3 and GPT-5 often encounter factual errors not due to a lack of encoded knowledge, but because they struggle with recalling this stored information. By using a knowledge profiling framework, analysis shows that while encoding is nearly saturated in these models, recall is still a hard challenge.